Sand Technology's Nucleus Exploration Suite Enters UK Market.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1998--Sand Technology (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SNDCF SNDCF Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Facility SNDCF Sub Network Dependent Convergence Functions ) Sand Technology Systems International Inc. today announced that marketing of its unique Nucleus Exploration product suite has commenced in the United Kingdom through Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. (HDS) and associated partners. In a series of briefings, HDS presented its first Nucleus customer, DunnHumby Associates, a sophisticated data analysis outsourcer for banking, distribution, retail, and utility enterprises. "Nucleus will provide us with a way of meeting our clients requirements swiftly. It allows us to answer complex questions very quickly without resorting to complex multi-step solutions," said Clive Humby, chairman, DunnHumby Associates. "We can quickly deploy a Nucleus solution without time-consuming and expensive data structuring exercises." In a press release dated July 8, 1998, HDS noted that Nucleus will be particularly valuable for those industries that make intensive use of data analysis, such as banking and insurance, transport and logistics and the retail sector. "Typically 5 percent of data warehouse users generate over 70 percent of the workload," said Duncan Painter, Director of Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems Europe. "The data mart, which was intended to provide a way around the limitations of the data warehouse, has introduced some of its own. Until now the data mart has been expensive, has required specialists to set up and was reliant on indexing. Queries not anticipated by the indexing took a long time to resolve. Nucleus takes a different approach." A Nucleus package is 100 percent indexed, with tokenising producing a compact database. Nucleus databases normally require no more storage space than the original data. Requiring only an ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. field delimited de·lim·it also de·lim·i·tate tr.v. de·lim·it·ed also de·lim·i·tat·ed, de·lim·it·ing also de·lim·i·tat·ing, de·lim·its also de·lim·i·tates To establish the limits or boundaries of; demarcate. data for input and needing no pre-analysis, a Nucleus database can be easily installed without database skills. In addition to presenting the first UK Nucleus customer, Hitachi Data Systems also announced a number of partners who will participate in the use of Nucleus technology in the UK market. KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen (UK) has become a Nucleus partner and will be using the package for developing exploration warehouses and as a tool for prototyping as well as for developing data marts. Other (UK) partners include CSC, Information Vectors, Intelligent Solutions and Prism. A range of analysis and business decision tool providers will work alongside the Nucleus database, including providing Web access. The initial (UK) tool providers include Brio Technology, Business Objects, Cognos, MicroStrategy and SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. . About HDS Hitachi Data Systems markets, world-wide, a broad range of information processing solutions, including enterprise servers, storage subsystems, peripheral products, and professional services. Owned by Hitachi, Ltd. and EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , HDS has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . This press release and other background information is available to journalists and industry analysts free of charge on NEWSDESK via the Internet on http://www.newsdesk.com, or on the HDS World Wide Web home page: http//www.hds.co.uk. For online information about HDS products and services, access our Web Site at www.hds.com. About Sand Technology Systems Sand Technology Systems International Inc. provides high performance, scaleable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehouses and online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ). Sand's product suite, The Nucleus Series, brings patented technology to the business user allowing for more timely and accurate decision processing within the disconnected client, desktop, workgroup, departmental and enterprise computing environments. More information on Nucleus is provided on the Sand Web Site at www.sandtechnology.com. All Rights Reserved. Nucleus, Nucleus Server, and N-Vector are registered trademarks and Nucleus Exploration Mart and Nucleus Exploration Warehouse are trademarks of Sand Technology Systems Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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